Project Management Software for Marketing Agencies in Paris

The work is done; the approval isn't

With larger clients, making the work is often the quick part. Then it goes to the brand manager, who sends it to legal, who has a question for the regional team, who is on holiday. Meanwhile the agency's board says "in progress", the designer has moved on to something else, and when the comments finally return nobody remembers the context.

Smaller clients have the opposite problem: they approve in five minutes and want the next thing by tomorrow. An agency running both kinds of account needs to see where each piece of work is actually waiting.

In ShipSprint, each client has its own project and board, and you can give a large client's board an explicit stage for work that's with the client for approval. Put a WIP limit on that column too. When five items are sitting with the client, the board makes it obvious, and the account lead has something concrete to chase rather than a vague sense that things are slow.

Keeping track of who said what

Long approval chains produce contradictory feedback. Brand asks for a bigger logo; legal asks for more space for the small print. Without a record, the agency ends up redoing work and arguing about which instruction came first.

The built-in wiki gives each client a page for the brief and for each round of feedback, with page history showing when it changed. Any sentence on that page can become a task, so "legal wants the disclaimer on every slide" turns straight into work assigned to someone.

On Team and up, time logging takes about five seconds next to the finished task, with reminders going to the person who forgot rather than their manager. The hours for each round sit in the client's project. If a client's approval process is generating far more rework than the quote assumed, timesheets show it clearly enough to discuss.

Planning around May and August

Capacity planning on Team and up counts approved leave and public holidays. In France, the cluster of public holidays in May, the August summer break and Christmas to New Year shape an agency's year. Approvals can stall in May if the people who sign off are away around the holidays, and campaigns due in early September are largely produced in August. Map both your team's leave and your clients' likely gaps before you commit to dates.

ShipSprint doesn't watch the studio: no screenshots, keystroke logs or activity tracking.

Buying ShipSprint from Paris: what to check

Who you're buying from. ShipSprint is made by Quantuva Technologies Pvt. Ltd. of Hyderabad, India. There's no office or local entity in France, and support is by email and in-app chat.

Time zones. IST is 4 hours 30 minutes ahead of Paris in winter and 3 hours 30 minutes ahead in summer. A question sent in your morning usually gets a reply the same working day, Indian time, so raise anything you'll need for a launch a few days ahead.

Billing. Each seat is billed in Indian rupees through Razorpay, and your bank converts it to euros. For how TVA applies to a service bought from a non-EU supplier, ask your accountant.

Data protection. Agency work can include a client's customer data, which GDPR and your client contract both cover. Review the sub-processor list and the security overview against both, and avoid putting customer lists into tasks.